Welcome to My Road

In October 2010, I set out on the journey of a lifetime - to cross the Eurasian landmass alone by bike.

This proved a journey of over 17,000km, that took a year and a week to complete.

As far as the east is from the west,

so far has he removed our transgressions from us...

I'd heard it, read it, believed it.

But how far is that?

I decided to find out.

My route began in Hong Kong, where I had been living for a year, and it took me across the whole of China (stopping in the city of Xi'an for the winter), through Kyrkyzstan, Uzbekistan and Western Kazakhstan. From there I took a boat across the Caspian Sea to Baku in Azerbaijan and continued on through Georgia, Southern Russia, the Ukraine, Slovakia, Austria, Germany, a tiny sliver of Liechtenstein, the flatter bits of Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Holland where I caught a ferry to the UK and pedalled the last few miles back to my home in Norfolk.

You can read about some of the motivations behind this endeavour here.

I also used this opportunity to raise money for two quite different causes. You can find out more about these here. We raised in excess of £13,000 for both charities.

To those of you who followed me on this trip, thank you. If you didn't have that opportunity, you can read (in great detail!) about what happened in the articles below. I have done my best to upload accounts of my experiences, struggles and musings from the road. I've uploaded lots of photos and some video clips too.

Since my return to England, I have embarked on a career as a novelist. My first novel, A Mighty Dawn, was published by Corvus Atlantic in March 2017. You can read more about this and my future novels here.

If you enjoy this site even a fraction as much as I enjoyed this epic adventure, you will be happy indeed!

Thanks for visiting!

Theo

Recent News

It is over - it is done....
C'est fini!
Это закончился!
我完了！
Das ist beenden!
And every other way of saying, "I have reached journey's end!"
17,096km later, 10,685 miles - from Hong Kong to Great Massingham in the ...